Mindfulness & Psychotherapy

About Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles and creator of the 6-month mentorship program A Course in Mindful Living. He is a psychologist, author and speaker who synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. Dr. Goldstein contends that we have the power to transform our traumas and habitual patterns that keep us stuck in perpetual cycles of stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction and step into greater freedom and peace. He offers practical strategies to calm our anxious minds, transform negative emotions, and facilitate greater self acceptance, freedom and inner peace.

With his past career in the field of business and management, Dr. Goldstein also designed the breakthrough program Mindfulness at Work™ for eMindful.com that has been recognized by the National Business Group on Health for its success with stress management. eMindful has collaborated with Aetna and Duke Integrative Medicine in researching the benefits of the Mindfulness at Work® program and the results have been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. This study demonstrated significant reductions in stress levels, which considerable research has shown reduces health care costs and absenteeism. Reduced stress also improves sleep quality and heart function, which contributes to better health, greater happiness, and higher productivity. eMindful and a group of five employers recently found that productivity increased by an average of 69 minutes per week, per participant yielding a return-on-investment of more than 11:1, while stress levels decreased by more than 37%.

In an effort to bring all of this work to youth, Dr. Goldstein has also co-developed the popular CALM (Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness) program with his wife and psychologist Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D. CALM is an 8-week program for teenagers 14-18 years old inspired by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s extensively researched Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program.

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